Henry Schreiner
Princeton University

Hans Dembinski
TU Dortmund

Shuo Liu
Sun Yat-sen University

Jim Pivarski
Princeton University

Video: https://youtu.be/ERraTfHkPd0

Abstract

Unlike arrays and tables, histograms in Python have usually been denied their own object, and have been represented as a single operation producing several arrays. Boost-histogram is a new Python library that provides histograms that can be filled, manipulated, sliced, and projected as objects. Building on top of the Boost libraries' Histogram in C++14 provided interesting distribution and design challenges with useful solutions. This is meant to be a foundation that others can build on; in the Scikit-HEP project1, a physicist friendly front-end \textquotedbl{}Hist\textquotedbl{} and a conversion package \textquotedbl{}Aghast\textquotedbl{} are already being designed around boost-histogram.

Keywords

Histogram, Analysis, Data processing, Data reduction, NumPy, Aggregation

DOI

10.25080/Majora-342d178e-009

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